VOL 32 No. 11 These Stores And Mnre Waiting For Ynn In This Issue Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 17,1987 Extravaganza Par Excellence HARRISBURG To a standing ovation the Governor and Ginny Thornburgh and Secretary of Agriculture Richard Grubb and his wife Barbara entered the large arena in a luxurious carriage pulled by two gleaming black draft horses to open the 71 $t Pennsylvania Farm Show last Sunday From then on it was an extravaganza par excellence as hundreds of shows events meetings and exhibitions took center stage as the week progressed In the center photo Thornburg makes it milk in front of 5 000 people In the holstem dairy cattle fudging Tom McCauley of Elizabethtown Lancaster County (upper left photo) won grand champion and senior champion honors in both the open and junior shows with Queen Star Sexy CE Hubert 111 (left) of New Cumberland Cumberland County had the reserve champions grand and senior in both shows with Kowraygon Creek Lmnan Jean Pennsylvania Dairy Princess Pam Kmdig did the honors In the 4 H Baby Beef Show (upper right photo) Mike Messick Middletown Dauphin County won his second consecutive grand championship Mike slather Maylm shared the honors in the photo The entire Strausbaugh family of York County shared in the excitement when nine-year old Jeff captured the champion market lamb banner In the (center left) photo they are from left Alicia Chris Jeff and Greg Shown in the (center right) photo is the new State Star Farmer named ai the FF A convention at the Forum Auditorium Tom Arrowsmith (right) of the Solanco FFA Lancaster County won the top state FFA award Making the presentation is eastern regional Vice President George Metzler (Above right) A new state corn record of 281 6 bushels per acre in the ear corn regular harvest class with Doebler s 75X was made by 1 arry Baron (third left) Luzerne County Donna Grey (left) Linda Baron and Dr AlTurgeon Penn State University agronomy department head shire the photo (Lower left) the Pennsylvania State Poultry Queen Noel King from Adams County poses with the best large pullet at the Farm Show This winner was shown by Behney and Miller tn Myerstown These stones and more are waiting for you throughout this issue of Lancaster Farming We hope you enjoy the sights as here recorded 1987 Pennsylvania Farm Show Five Sections $8.50 Per Year